August 21st Screening

Posted by: misa^2

AUGUST 2010 SCREENING

Date: August 21, 2010
Time: 4:00 PM to 12:00 AM
Location: Lecture Room 1, Modern Languages Building
University of Michigan, Central Campus, Ann Arbor, Michigan

SCHEDULE:
(Synopses modified from Anime News Network)

4:00: Kamichu
Episodes 1-3
Yurie Hitotsubashi was just an average middle school student, living in the city of Onomichi on Japan's inland sea during the easygoing times of the 1980s. She spent her days worrying about exams and trying to get Kenji, the clueless boy she likes, to notice her. Then during lunch one day, she suddenly announces to her friend Mitsue that the night before, she had become a goddess. Their classmate Matsuri quickly latches on to Yurie’s newfound divinity as a way to promote her family’s bankrupt Shinto shrine. She hopes that replacing their hapless local god, Yashima-sama, with Yurie will make the shrine more popular (and profitable). Now, with Matsuri as her manager, Yurie has to grant wishes, cure curses, meet aliens, and attend god conventions. All while attending school and working up the courage to confess to Kenji.

5:20: Baka to Test to Shokanjuu (Running Series)
Episodes 11-13
Summary of previous episodes:
The system governing control of all the avatars in the school is hacked. Fortunately, Akihisa's special avatar runs separately, so the school turns to him to defeat the rogue avatars- and push his friends into supplementary lessons. Akihisa's sister returns to town, refusing to let go of her great and undying love for her little brother. In order to be rid of her watchful gaze, Akihisa attempted to prove that he could live and study alone, but failed a test completely after accidentally moving all the answers up by one position. Class F's cardboard box desks are used to pack away the next exam, but the contents of the desks end up packed with the tests. After breaking in to the school vault to get their possessions back, they discover that someone stole the test answers, and they prevent the thief from cheating by spreading the answers to the entire school.

6:35: Working!!
Episodes 1-3
In a family restaurant in Hokkaido, the northern prefecture of Japan, 16 year old high school student Takanashi Souta works part-time along with his strange co-workers, including Taneshima Poplar, a high school girl who's a year older than Souta who's easily mistaken for a elementary/middle schooler, and Shirafuji Kyouko the 28-year old store manager who doesn't bother to do any work at all.

7:50: Break
Get some food, chat with staff or attendees about current season anime, or take a peek at a little of otaku culture with It Came From IRC, where we play back some of the funniest, most intriguing, or simply most bizarre videos the staff has come across.

8:45: Durarara (Sponsored by Crunchyroll) (Running Series)
Episodes 10-12
Summary of previous episodes:
It is revealed in a flashback, that Namie learned that Seiji loved the head their uncle kept in a jar. Later in that flashback, Seiji tells Namie that he killed Harima after she discovered the head. Namie tells Seiji that she attached Celty's head to Harima's corpse for Seiji. In the present, Seiji and Harima are in the park, and she drops his phone in a fountain. Namie becomes nervous because she can't contact Seiji, and asks Izaya to find him. Harima receives a message on her cell phone saying she is being pursued and attempts to run with Seiji. They pass Celty and Shizuo; Celty pursues them after recognizing Harima's face as her own. Shizou stops Seiji and becomes infuriated at how Seiji says he loves Harima. After stabbing Shizou, Seiji chases after the two women. Harima bumps into Mikado, who helps her escape. Shizuo catches Seiji, and shortly after, the police apprehend Seiji. Namie assures Seiji that she will retrieve Harima.

10:00: Raffle
We'll be giving away two one-month Crunchyroll Premium Anime Memberships thanks to our sponsor, as well as plenty of anime merchadise donated by Wizzywig Collectibles.

Crunchyroll is an anime translation and streaming site which brings current season anime right to your PC. You can find them, as well as watch all the shows we screen that are sponsored by them, at http://www.crunchyroll.com/.

Wizzywig Collectibles is a locally owned anime and Japanese merchandise shop. They can be found at 4720 South State Rd., Ann Arbor, MI, 48108, or you can order online at http://www.wizzywig.com/.

10:15: Trigun
Episodes 1-3
Vash the Stampede is a gunman on the run with a 60 billion double dollar bounty on his head, which has made it difficult for him to go anywhere without being chased and shot at. Every town he ever visits ends up being destroyed because of his pursuers, but miraculously no one ever gets killed. Meryl and Milly are two insurance agents that have been sent to find Vash the Stampede and keep him under surveillance so he causes no more damage. Meryl, who leads the pair, refuses to believe that the man they have met can possibly be the legendary gunman. This spikey haired, gangly, young man is extremely friendly, a pacifist, hates blood and suicide, absolutely loves donuts, and is a dork and a crybaby (far from a notorious outlaw). But there is more to Vash and his past than meets the eye.